Zeichenære: Retrospektive 1997-2022
Catalog of the works of Nil Orange
Softcover, 760 pages, 19 x 27 cm
over 1800 partly colored illustrations
2nd edition, limited to 21 copies and signed by the artist
Multicolored thread stitching, round corners
Embossing foil digital copper, color cut yellow
 
This book is not a usual artist's monograph, it is to be understood as a work of art. Therefore also a multiplicity of unusual peculiarities: there are no picture descriptions, year numbers or references to techniques. Instead, all the motifs are woven together into a large, chronologically ordered tapestry of images, and are provided with a continuous count. This is idiosyncratic, but deliberately chosen. Numbers and letters, symbols and signs, and always the figurative. From absurd to mystical. From existential to spiritual. A graphical Die and Become.